grabFocus after JOptionPane in apple?

[epimorphic]

I have an applet that contains a JScrollPane (which in turn contains a JTextPane).

A button in the applet launches a JOptionPane that asks for some information from the user, which is then incorporated into the Document for the JTextPane.

The problem I'm having is this: I want the JTextPane to regain the focus after the JOptionPane has done its thing. I cannot seem to make this happen. Instead, once the JOptionPane window is closed, the focus is on the browser window containing the applet., and not the applet itself. (E.g., when I press the up/down arrow keys, they move the browser window rather than the cursor inside the JTextPane, although the cursor is visible and blinking.)

I have tried several variations on grabFocus() and requestFocus(), so far to no avail. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Michael Dickson
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[haslo]

For a workaround, you could create your own JFrame that implements the JOptionPane's functionality (containing a JTextField and a JButton or two) and passes the focus back in a WindowListener's WindowClosing function. I don't know the JOptionPane's implementation all too well - I don't think you passed a null value as the input message's owner, did you?

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